MY PLANETS

i added a flair and change the color some on the SUN

Nice!

How did you mod this? I imagine customising each races home system like that would be a cool feature.

Nice

not bad you must have a fast pc to run all that well.

Oooo, pretty. Very nice!

yes it is cool to do that with all races plus i have a custom race i`m working on for myself
the Sol system i found most the world maps on NASA sites

so i adjusted the colors some anded them to the game i put more time om earth so the night lights would show up more then the did before i started !!!!
i`ve tried making my own worlds so far no go,... have not like what i`ve done so i`ll keep working on it
Those that have mods with planets they have done my hats off to them !!!
as i find new worlds and make my own if they work i`ll post them here who know maybe i`ll end up with a MOD !!!!











it`s a AMD XP 2.2ghz

1g RAM

and a 7600 ge-force video card with 512 mb ram

about 750gb hard drive space LOL

it does ok !! it`s a socket A so it not that new !!! i want a duel core CPU !!!

Good luck, it is after all a lot of fun to be able to customize how a system really looks in the interface.
In X-Worlds/05-C, there is only 22 "temporary" planets... so, during the last two weeks i managed to raise this number to a full-blast 13x3=39 individual Homeworlds and a set of random planets (6 in each A/T/U categories) to fill the ranks of Fiver's maxed out system(s).

From 32b-512x256 textures all the way down to 128x64 (for PQ-4 or less only, defined as 0.25/starsize). It was painful to have to use much lower resolutions... but i've got a motto for a zipping pack which i try to adhere as much as possible. There's no real use for high scale once you realize the map zooms can't actually show every tiny details anyway, even if the maximum is used. How often do players really click on these, anyway? Once or twice, just for fun!

I do think planets are Key-Items in this game - might as well provide immersive stuff, somehow. X-Com races are fascinating in fact. The green Muton themselves, MUST be on a specially devised greeny sphere, you bet. Now, onto the Apocalypse dimension; huge variety, fantastic coloring, tremendous amount of conditions == even more designing fun.

After all, S-H-A-D-O does have a real Moon-base - ON the Moon, what else? And if you've never seen UFOs indirectly represented in orbit (as pseudo satellites), you certainly will if i have it my way.
Thunderbirds-5 is actually a real space/station in the TV-Show, soooo it's also orbiting already.
And-So-On...

- Zyxpsilon.

i`ve mod tech tree planet improvements events and startbase modules custom race Anomalies Political parties and and a few custom maps also Planet Descriptions and Terrain Color Schemes which are a little trickier !!!Height Maps can be a pain gotten them to work with Terrain Color Schemes,.... so as far as note pad i use it allot on the xml file and then check them with IE to make sure i did not make any mistakes

The UI using destopx i would not know where to begin and and some of the more adavnce stuff i would need help

but yeah on high resolutions graphics it is not needed so once you get where you want you can start toning down the graphics so they are not so big but still look good but hey on your own home system it does not hurt to have it look awesome !!!:D

here a planet its a little better !!

Day Time



Nite Time,... re done a Light_Noises.png map so the lights would show up brighter and same map should work for most planets !!!




Did a HeightMap so it would pick the tiles right !!!





so it is easier to do planets for TA,.. but i may try to do some for DA!!Not sure yet

Gully, do i need a faster card to SEE clouds and such details now more than ever!

I want YOUR artistic skills and both the heightmap used & it's partner file the terrain-color-schemes you created listed right here in this thread - in all its glory.

Cuz, the real trouble lies in the relationship between most raws-256 and the necessary gap to show for when coasts and ocean depths can actually make sense rather than a dotted pixy mess, as i have proven with the TEMPORARY tries for the Thunderbirds island(S) in X-Worlds.

Great work, SirNasty.

You should see what i ended up with for the Biodrones' homeworld - Antadronis. Maybe an upload next weekend or somethin'.
Huge fun just to fiddle at perfection for each of these. And, lately i have a brand new StarPort bldg... too.


- Zyxpsilon.

What the hell happened to Earth?

LOL hey Zyxpsilon TA gets all the credit !!! you make a png map and it does the work for you!!! the world map and the tile map will look the same !!! GO STARDOCK TEAM !!!! the heightmap just tell`s the tile map where to put the improvements!!!

Now as far as DA is concern that another story!!! i`ve been trying to get the tile maps Quote unquote "necessary gap to show for when coasts and ocean depths can actually make sense rather than a dotted pixy mess" which is hard too do !!! i gave up on it before because of it maybe i`ll get it this time !!!
if i have any luck i`ll let you know !!!



errr a HOT day at the Beach !!!

i`ve taken a brake from trying to get a heightmap and terrain-color-schemes that works my eye are cross !!  

Nasty

OK here a shot of Uranus Saturn Jupiter Neptune and I added another flare to the sun too so which 5 planets do we use now


Jupiter Neptune Saturn Uranus Mars Mercury


we know we have to use Earth !!!

ALSO is any one having any luck with planet lights it seem I can`t use the .DDS Files and if I use a Light_Noise.png it show for all planets ??? :NOTSURE: 

Added the flairs to the Sun as a mod !!




go get it as soon as Kryo approves it

planets and clouds



here is one of the planets

ok I`ll have to add the planet PIC later

ImageShack upload down


Nasty

The High-Resolution Graphics Mod by LogicSequence (Official Thread), Twilight version coming soon!

LOL this is so Ironic !!!! well here the other planet Logic with your OK I would like to us it !!!!






Nasty

Two question !!!!

One do you want more stars with some type of flairs???

Two is there anybody whom my want to Beta test them ???

Here is a pic of Two that are Done!



Nasty

Hi Sir Nasty. Nice Work so far. I have some Ideas for you...:D

1. Are you able to create binary Stars, like Alpha Centauri ?
2. Are you able to create Black Holes, like the giant one in our Milky Ways Center ?
3. I thought about a "Water" Planet, for an Aguarian Race for Example.
4. Are you able to make red Giants ?
5. Are you able to make Star Clusters,like Plejades, as System Star ?

Hope that´s a new inspiration.

Wow those star flares look fantastic!
Will use them upon release!

we are pretty limited on what we can do with the Suns (Stars)

a black hole and the Plejades my be do as nebulas to show up in back ground.

The water Planet depends on what you are after.

don`t know if this is red giant enough but here a pic.
we can`t know any thing on it size.






Still lookingfor BETA testers!!!

I need a few Peep`s to test them,.. go get them!!

Stars Flairs Two

Please let me know if you like them :NOTSURE:

If so `ll upload them.

Nasty

I have my lores Earth map ready now too!!!
with two Light_Noise.png to chose from.

I may do a hires too



Here the lights



Nasty

Here My Latest Planet !!!



Nasty